New Features On Pro Racquetball Stats

We have a bit of a “lull” in the Pro racquetball calendar for February, so I thought i’d take the opportunity to tell you about some of the new reports that we’ve added at www.proracquetballstats.com (which now has a new logo too!):

– First off; we’ve built in the capability to allow direct URL linking by being able to pass parameters to the code. I’ll give direct links to each of the reports below that will allow you to just click and get the report.

– After Charlie Pratt‘s win in Portland, we added a Highest and Lowest combined seeds to comprise the Finals, Semi-Finals and Quarters/Semis/Finals of a tournament on record. These reports can answer some pretty cool questions, such as “Have all four top seeds ever not made the semi finals?” Or, “Has a tournament ever gone completely ‘chalk’ from the quarters onwards? Here’s a link to the highest combined seeds in the final of an WRT event to show what the data looks like: http://www.proracquetballstats.com/cgi-bin/print_results_new.pl?tour=WRT&query=highest_seeds_f

– I added in some “Counting Queries” that track the Most Wins and Most Losses on tour, right next to the existing “Most Appearances” on tour.

– I’ve done some work adding “Home Country” for pretty much every player who has made at least a quarter final on the Men’s tours, then added that Country to the “Finals by Season” and “All Finals” reports. I also created a cool report that ONLY lists the countries of origin for the Q/S/F of every event so you can kind of see the evolution of country participation as the sport has grown in popularity in Central and South America.

– I fixed several little bugs encountered here and there, or as I was informed of issues by users of the site.

– Lastly, I added quick “back” links on every page to avoid cache-miss errors that occur sometimes. It isn’t a “fix” but does allow you to navigate backwards more easily.

I’ll be announcing another Live Demo of the site soon, where we’ll do a WebEx and I’ll go through and demonstrate all these new reports.
On the Rball calendar, we do have a few Amateur events this month: